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Detail from Florence Duomo & Ark Composition , 2009 , oil & china marker on canvas , (four canvases) 87 x 138 in.
We don’t include a person’s credit rating in their eulogy, and we don’t remember civilizations by their GDP numbers. Bruce Linn’s recent paintings include images of ships loaded, like arks, with landmark architecture and iconic works of art, fleeing a world of landfills and dumpsters--metaphors for the process of preserving (and destroying) material culture Linn calls "Aesthetic Darwinism," which he sees as a revelation of our values and aspirations. In the current economic climate, the paintings serve to q
Ark , 2009 , oil & china marker on canvas , 48 x 72 in.